"Natural selection is an anti-chance process, which gradually builds up complexity, step by tiny step. The end product of this ratcheting process is an eye, or a heart, or a brain - a device whose improbable complexity is utterly baffling until you spot the gentle ramp that leads up to it."
Asymmetric transitions
Illustrated
This is also what happens when we make real, massive particles from vacuum energy, and they even make the connection to vacuum energy as it relates to spontaneous symmetry breaking from zero-point energy at the bottom of the first linked page. It also defines the mechanism for the anthropic principle... as roughly defined, here:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2006-02/msg0073320.html
This fixes the flaw in particle theory, and the gravitational flaw in Dirac's Large Numbers Hypothesis, not to mention what it does to inflationary theory and string theory as well as loopy theories and the standard model at the higgs scale... where they're predictably finding nothing.
I told Lee Smolin and a bunch of other theorists about this, and the closest thing that I got back to a reply was from Lawrence Krauss, who "sees no purpose in nature".
Course, he's also the same guy that said this, so I have to wonder what it takes:
"But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. We're looking out at the whole universe. There's no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun — the plane of the earth around the sun — the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe."
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